You move across precarious surfaces—narrow ledges, crumbling catwalks, debris fields in low gravity—at reduced speed.
Application: Navigating the skeletal remains of destroyed space stations, crossing energy beams in Maker ruins, or maintaining footing during ship maneuvers.
Balance Untrained
Source Player Core pg. 192
Requirements: You are in a square that contains a narrow surface, uneven ground, or another similar feature.
You move across a narrow surface or uneven ground, attempting an Acrobatics check against its Balance DC. You are off-guard while on a narrow surface or uneven ground.
Critical Success: You move up to your Speed.
Success: You move up to your Speed, treating it as difficult terrain (every 5 feet costs 10 feet of movement).
Failure: You must remain stationary to keep your balance (wasting the action) or you fall. If you fall, your turn ends.
Critical Failure: You fall and your turn ends.
Sample Balance Tasks
Untrained tangled cables, narrow catwalk
Trained steel beam
Expert skyscraper ledge
Master taut cable, smooth sheet of ice
Legendary razor’s edge, asteroids falling midair
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